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- 1drawterm brings 9front Plan 9 to Android phones●Uplink established: 9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to bu
A guide explains how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front, the Plan 9 fork, without needing a PC. Written after a short note by developer Sigrid on ftrv.se, it covers what Plan 9 is, running the rio window environment on a phone, and sharing a phone's files to the system. The niche Unix community is sharing it as a fun example of old research OS living on modern mobile hardware.
- 2Writer argues literary awards should exclude books about writers●Continuing an earlier theme, I feel that, to preserve the dignity of the profession, no literary award should be granted
A writer has argued that no literary award should be given to books about writers or writing, saying the practice undermines the dignity of the profession. The comment came while reading Sigrid Nunez's novel The Friend, which centres on a woman mourning a writer friend and won the National Book Award. Others are weighing in on whether self-referential fiction deserves top prizes.